be merely nominal(guī máo tù jiǎo)

be merely nominal

Turtle hair and rabbit horn, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Gu ī m á ot ù Ji ǎ o, which means to refer to something that can not exist or has no real name.

Analysis of Idioms

Rabbit horn and turtle hair

Idiom usage

A combination; an object; a metaphor for something in name but not in reality. The first volume of Leng Yan Jing says: "the void in the world, the flight by land and water, all kinds of things are called everything. If you are not the author, you are nothing. If you are not the author, you are nothing, and if you are nothing, you are the same as a turtle and a rabbit." "On great wisdom" Volume 12 also said: "such as turtle hair and rabbit horn, but also famous but not real." Song Suzhe's poem "Luan Cheng Ji" Volume 12 says: "the turtle hair and rabbit horn is empty. Since it is not collected, is it nothing? It's true that there's nothing everywhere, and it's impossible for the lights to get in the way. " Is it evil? Volume five of the five Lantern Festival yuan by Song Shi Puji and volume one of the Sutra of the Great Buddha's top head: "if you don't write it, why are you here? Why not? If not, it is the same as the tortoise hair rabbit horn. 」

Chinese PinYin : guī máo tù jiǎo